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...prediction would have once been laughable. After all, North and South Korea are still technically at war, and in the autumn of 2006 Pyongyang's insular regime defied the world by testing a nuclear bomb. But since February 2007, when North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il struck a deal with the U.S., Japan, Russia, China and South Korea to begin dismantling his nuclear program in exchange for aid and normalized relations with Washington, there has been a burst of cooperation between the two Koreas. In mid-December, a direct rail link opened between Seoul and the Kaesong Industrial Complex across...
TIME: Senator Clinton, having listened to you a lot over these last couple of weeks I really was struck by the different tone and different message of your speech last night, from the very first one. I was wondering what is the message that you think you got from voters in Iowa and New Hampshire? What was it that they weren't hearing from you before and you think they are hearing from you now? CLINTON: Well, I was talking specifically about New Hampshire, of course, because in that very concentrated four-day period I had a chance to speak...
...voters saw it a lot differently than the pundits did. I certainly know, talking to a lot of voters in New Hampshire as well. I talked to one woman who said she was planning to vote for Obama until she saw that debate and what she was most struck by was that you stood your ground. Yeah, you know, Karen, look, you have followed me a long time and I have known you over the years, and I am sure you understand I sometimes think that the media doesn't really follow what people are thinking and doing...
...very struck by the fact there were some very bright folks who weren’t able to go to colleges that he felt would really prepare them,” Janie Strauss said...
...team loses focus for a few minutes or falls victim to bad luck. Often, if the defense fails to recover its mental edge after letting in a goal, it can snowball into a scoring streak for the opposition. During Harvard’s haphazard start against Quinnipiac, the Bobcats struck twice within 53 seconds in the middle of the first period after Ben Nelson followed a Brian Leitch goal by stuffing a rebound past Richter. “I think that we work too hard for goals to allow a few slip-ups to end in prime scoring opportunities...